inherent tendency Quotes

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed toward goodness, just as water tends to flow downwards. There is no water but flows downwards, and no man but shows his tendency to be good. Now, by striking water hard, you may splash it higher than your forehead, and by damming it, you may make it go uphill. But, is that the nature of water? It is external force that causes it to do so. Likewise, if a man is made to do what is not good, his nature is being similarly forced.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

Habit is second nature.

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.